{"id":649356,"date":"2026-05-04T16:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649356\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:30:11","slug":"brighton-news-fabian-hurzeler-agrees-new-long-term-contract-with-seagulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649356\/","title":{"rendered":"Brighton news: Fabian Hurzeler agrees new long-term contract with Seagulls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brighton<\/a> appointed Hurzeler at the age of 31 in June 2024, making him the youngest ever full-time boss of a Premier League team.<\/p>\n

He arrived to replace Roberto de Zerbi, who left at the end of the 2023-24 season and has recently become Tottenham<\/a>‘s new head coach.<\/p>\n

Hurzeler led the side to an eighth-placed finish in his first season in charge, though Brighton<\/a> missed out on European qualification because rivals Crystal Palace<\/a> won the FA Cup.<\/p>\n

Brighton<\/a>‘s only Uefa campaign to date was in the 2023-24 Europa League after they finished sixth in the 2022-23 Premier League under De Zerbi, who succeeded Graham Potter earlier that season when the Englishman left for Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That was the highest top-flight finish in Brighton<\/a>‘s history and Hurzeler has the chance to match that feat, with his side two points behind Bournemouth<\/a> in sixth.<\/p>\n

There is an outside chance that finishing sixth in the Premier League this season could result in a Champions League spot.<\/p>\n

Brighton<\/a> still have a mathematical chance of overtaking Aston Villa<\/a> for the fifth and final definite Champions League qualification place but are eight points behind with just three games left.<\/p>\n

Hurzeler came through the youth ranks at Bayern Munich but cut short his professional playing career at 23 to go into lower-level coaching.<\/p>\n

He later became assistant coach at St Pauli in 2020 and took charge of the team in December 2022, before leading them to the Bundesliga 2 title in 2024.<\/p>\n

Hurzeler had been linked with a return to Germany in the Bundesliga – with Bayer Leverkusen reportedly a possible destination, external<\/a> – but has been rewarded for his impressive job at Brighton<\/a> so far with a new deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brighton appointed Hurzeler at the age of 31 in June 2024, making him the youngest ever full-time boss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-649356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}